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(No Model.)

G. M. HATHAWAY.

EAR RING. NO. 331,638. Patented DBO. 1, 1835.

Fly-1- UNITED STATES rrIcE.

PATIENT GEORGE M. HATHAWAY, OF NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOa CHARLES D. SHEPARD, OF MAMARONEOK, N. Y.

EAR-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,638, dated December 1, 1885.

Application filed June 29, 1855. Serial No. 170,121. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Geenen M. Harna- WAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at N ew York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ear-Rings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the iuventin, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the manner of suspending the drop or jewel of an ear-ring from the sustaining-loop. It is equally applicable, however, to other articles of jewelry having similar pendants, and where it is desirable to sustain the latter upon a support permitting their free oscillation or vibration with the slightest movement of the wearer, thereby, especially when the drop is a diamond or other jewel, increasing its capacity for refleeting or tlashin g light-rays, and correspondingly heightening its value as an object of ornamentation.

The means by which I carry my invention into edect are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, and wherein like letters indicate like parts.

Figure l is a vertical central section of the ear-ring, showing one form of my invention. Fig. 2 represents detail views of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical central section of a modiiication of the form shown in Figs. l and 2. Fig. 4 represents detailviews of the modiication shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 represents a vertical central section of the ear-ring, showing the preferred form of my invention; and Fig. 6, a detail view thereof, showing the shape of the elongated socket or groove.

A indicates an ear-loop of ordinary form, having a ring attachment, B, from which the pendant or drop C is suspended. In the form illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 the attachment B is provided with an inverted cupshaped socket, G, of hardened steel or like material, having a conical tapering bottom. The setting D of the pendant or drop has a ring attachment, F, which bears a downwardly-projecting pin or stud, E, having preferably a point of hardened steel, iridium, or like metal capable of resisting friotional wear.

The point of the pin in this instance rests in the conical tapering bottom of the socket in the ring B. This pivotal connection permits of a free movement of the drop or pendant with respect to the ear-loop, the hard bearing effectually resisting wear.

In the modication shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the setting attachment bears the socket, and the ear-loop attachment has a corresponding stud having a pivotal bearing in the same.

In the form illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 the socket G is elongated to form a groove, preferably V-shaped in cross-section. This elongated socket extends half-way round the inner surface of the ring attachment, and admits of a more extended movement of the pin and drop in an inward and outward direction as the head of the wearer is inclined to the right or to the left.

In inserting the pendant or drop it is merely necessary to open the ring attachment B at its point of division M, place the point of the pin within the groove or socket or groove or socket over the pin, as the case may be, and after close the ring.

vWith either of these pivotal connections the pendant is delicately poised and free to partially rotate or vibrate, and in the grooved form to travel, as above described, presenting constantly different surfaces to the lightsource, and producing a continuous series of flashes or reliections with each slight movement of the wearer.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In pendent jewelry, a pin and elongated socket connection for suspending the drop or jewel, substantially as described.

2. In pendent jewelry, the combination of the split ring attached to the ear-loop and provided with an elongated socket, and the ring attached to the drop'or pendant and provided with a pin or stud, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE M. HATHAWAY.

IVitnesses:

J. R. NOTTINGHAM, WILLIAM FITCH,

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